Spore Amending DRM Rules

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Upcoming update allows you to install Spore on a variety of PCs

By Jimmy Thang

Due to complaints about Spore's data rights management(DRM), Electronic Arts is slightly amending its install rules. Spore currently allows owners to install the game only three times. This means that gamers who want to install Spore on more than three computers are out of luck. According to MTV Multiplayer, an EA spokesperson said an upcoming patch will fix the problem.

The spokesperson compared Spore's security to that of Apple's iTunes service, in that both allow a limited number of installs. The difference is that iTunes allows you to de-authorize the service from computer to computer, granting you multiple installs in the process. Spore currently does not allow this, but the oncoming patch hopes to fix that issue.

Regardless, the EA spokesperson provided data to show that it wasn't very popular amongst owners to install Spore across more than three computers. The figures below were extracted from a sampling of Spore owners:

Total activations: 437138

Users activating on only 1 machine: 86%

Users activating on more than 1 machine: 14%

User trying to activate on more than 3 machines: 0.4%

There is currently no release date set for the patch, all we know is that its supposedly coming in the "near future."